Poverty in Houston

14 10 2008

Living on the side of I-10 and feeding off the drivers on the feeder lanes.

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15 10 2008
denton (07:36:32) :

It is especially sad to see the wheelchair in this scene.

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15 10 2008
pankaj (07:59:14) :

Yes the wheelchair is what caught my eye. Especially, when we spend 100’s of millions on the I-10 expansion, a few bucks more to setting up more homeless shelters outside of downtown would be beneficial for these people.

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15 10 2008
houstoncityslicker (08:03:51) :

Poverty? Please! We don’t have poverty in America. You wanna see poverty?…step outside the country for a bit. These fat pan-handlers on their fake wheelchairs on the side of highways are not poor …they’re lazy!

Did anyone wonder why there is no one in the ’shelter’ in the picture and the wheel chair was left behind?

They’ve taken their $ collections for the day, parked their fake disability (wheelchair) in their ‘home’ and gone for walk about town with the handouts. Probably to get their ‘fix’ for the day.

Don’t give money to them…you are prolonging their dependence on handouts…and not making a living off the sweat of their back.

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15 10 2008
Raj M (15:06:34) :

Houstoncityslicker, you have a good point about the difference between poverty here and abroad. I’ve seen the slums and beggars in Peru and India. But poverty takes many different forms and the extremity of one type does not diminish another. We should be committed to creating a society where everybody can live to their fullest potential. It’s the moral thing to do. The solutions are as complex as the poverty. We need people like Pankaj who keep their eyes open to document what’s happening.

On another note, should we call these places on the side of the highway Bushvilles — the modern-day equivalent to Hoovervilles.

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